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Cat Out Loud Speaks Out on Slaughter
When humans become victims of their own systems
Via the Animal Ethics blog, comes this link to an early May article on slaughterhouse practices.
The frightening part of reading this article is realizing that almost everyone involved objects to processing animals that are still alive...yet no one seems to be able to stop it. The line keeps moving...but the line cannot think and cannot act, of itself. It has no real authority, and no real power to punish.
The slaughterhouse assembly line is part of a system, created by humans, and we humans have granted this system authority over thinking human beings. If the "system" fails, someone must be punished.
If it is halted, or slowed, we punish humans for stalling the line. So rather than push a button to stop the line when an animal is not properly killed, we let the line progress. The animal, and our humanity, suffers.
How many other systems exist that we have granted similar power over individual human will and rationality? Our own creativity has made us slaves to our creations, and other living beings suffer along with us. Their suffering is short and agonizing.
Ours is less agonizing but may be life-long.
posted by Cat Walker at 10:14 AM
Via the Animal Ethics blog, comes this link to an early May article on slaughterhouse practices.
The frightening part of reading this article is realizing that almost everyone involved objects to processing animals that are still alive...yet no one seems to be able to stop it. The line keeps moving...but the line cannot think and cannot act, of itself. It has no real authority, and no real power to punish.
The slaughterhouse assembly line is part of a system, created by humans, and we humans have granted this system authority over thinking human beings. If the "system" fails, someone must be punished.
If it is halted, or slowed, we punish humans for stalling the line. So rather than push a button to stop the line when an animal is not properly killed, we let the line progress. The animal, and our humanity, suffers.
How many other systems exist that we have granted similar power over individual human will and rationality? Our own creativity has made us slaves to our creations, and other living beings suffer along with us. Their suffering is short and agonizing.
Ours is less agonizing but may be life-long.
posted by Cat Walker at 10:14 AM
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